Amendment 2, if passed, opens the door to circuit court judges having
the power to raise income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, etc.
without approval of the legislature, governor, school boards, county
commissions, or city councils and without a vote of the people . . . if
the judge first finds that "inequitable funding" has diminished one's
Constitutionally guaranteed right to a free public education.

Bottom line: If Amendment 2 passes, one judge in one county
elected by less than 1% of Alabama's population can impact Alabama's
entire education system, impose any tax he believes is "good" . . . if
doing so, in his own mind, is needed to protect a new constitutional
right to an "adequate" education. The Alabama Constitution today vests
this judgment and power in the legislature (and the other governing
bodies, such as school boards, that the legislature has created).

Amendment 2 specifically repeals the language that vests in the
legislature the power and authority to make policy and funding decisions
regarding public education.

Remember 1990s Equity Funding lawsuit that takes 10s of millions
of dollars from Huntsville schools and shifts it to other parts of the
state? It was dismissed in 2002 by the Alabama Supreme Court in reliance
on the very language Amendment 2 removes from our constitution. I've
read the Supreme Court's 127 page opinion. Equity Funding lawsuits, and
many others like them, can and will be revived if Amendment 2 passes.

In short: this is a Trojan Horse. It is a sugar-coated poison
pill. It must be defeated at all costs. Ignore Huntsville Times' and
other media editorials that believe in higher taxes no matter what and
don't care about the subterfuge of this legislation.

BEAT THE DRUM! GET THE MESSAGE OUT!

Mo Brooks.

P.S. - Feel free to distribute this message to whomever you wish.
My legal and political analysis takes much more time than what I've
described above, but the above does give the gist of Amendment 2 and
helps explains why it must be defeated.